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A photograph of an outdoor communal meal under a tented canopy at night, lit by a bright floodlight. Many people sit on the bare ground eating from metal plates of rice. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis stand and serve food, including a bare-chested man in a white dhoti in the centre. In the foreground a woman in a red sari with white flowers in her hair eats, and a woman in a teal sari with gold jewellery sits holding a plate. Colourful bunting hangs from the tent poles and a banner is visible at the right. No one is identifiable as a person from the image.

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April 06 20122012-04-06A large outdoor gathering under red and yellow canopies with gold fringe, where many devotees dressed mostly in white sit on a red mat and eat from plates while others walk between rows. A woman in white with glasses stands at left, a man in a white dhoti carries a plate, and a woman in white with a green-sleeved blouse stands center right. Several seated people wear lanyard badges, and bags and bottles lie on the mat. Yellow draped tents and greenery frame the scene. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2016-01-31June 08 20172017-06-08A large crowd of devotees sits cross-legged on a red floor covering inside a white tent, eating from white paper plates during a communal meal. In the foreground a man in white dhoti and shirt, with a bare-shouldered wrap, serves food from a blue bucket with a ladle. Many seated people wear shirts, kurtas, saris and churidars in blue, red, white and striped colours. No one is identifiable as a person in the frame, so no appearance-based candidate is claimed.2016-04-30January 31 20162016-01-31A large outdoor tented meal, an annadan-style communal feast, with many people seated on red mats under a yellow and red draped canopy decorated with marigold garlands. A woman in a cream sari with a green border stands centre-left holding a steel plate, and seated men wear white dhotis and shirts. Other diners in green, orange and teal saris eat from steel plates while volunteers in white move between rows. A devotee in white sits centre-front with a rudraksha-style mala, holding a plate. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable by appearance in this view.2006-12-30A covered open-sided hall with corrugated metal walls and red-orange roof beams, where many men in white shirts and white dhotis sit cross-legged on a concrete floor eating from metal plates. Several standing attendants in white shirts and dhotis move among them, one holding a white cloth. Large plastic water jugs and steel containers sit on a table at left, and a child stands near the entrance by bougainvillea. This appears to be a communal meal serving line, with no identifiable figure presented as a person.2019-01-20February 16 20072007-02-16July 17 20082008-07-17Night-time outdoor annadaan meal under a tarpaulin canopy strung with colourful bunting in red, green, blue and orange. Two long rows of men sit on the concrete floor and on chairs, holding steel plates of food. Many wear white dhotis and shirts; one man in the foreground is bare-chested with a red thread around his neck and eats from a plate. Fluorescent tube lights hang from poles along the canopy, and a cameraman stands at the back. No a person candidate is visible.2011-11-09A large hall where many men in white shirts and white dhotis sit cross-legged in rows on the floor eating a communal meal from green banana-leaf plates, with small steel cups of water placed along the leaves. Volunteers in white clothing walk between the rows serving food, and one server wears a white sari with a gold border and carries a plate. A man in a white shirt with an orange cloth draped over his shoulder and carrying a notebook stands at the centre. Other people, including a woman in a green sari with an orange border seated at right, are seated on striped mats. Pillars with orange and yellow banners frame the hall, and a few people stand near the back in the background. This appears to be an annadan style communal meal.2012-05-20August 24 20142014-08-24 +1 copies